Yearly Archives: 2017

The long-awaited arrival of April the giraffe’s baby has made Animal Adventure Park the second most live-viewed channel in YouTube’s history.April’s livestream had more than 232 million live views and… Photo Credit: Animal Adventure Park via AP This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his first public comments since the Cleveland murder case, saying that the social media giant has more work to do when it comes to policing disturbing content online and making…

Through research and application, clean and renewable energy sources are something some of the nation’s most valuable companies are focusing on. Software giant Microsoft has a data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming… Photo Credit: David McNew/Getty Images, File

Not every diplomat can become an overnight “хит интернета” (Internet hit) after just one speech at the United Nations. That honor goes to Vladimir Safronkov, deputy permanent representative from Russia, who shone last week.

The Putorana Plateau is a mountainous range south from Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula Scientists of the Siberian Federal University will study migration routes of the reindeer across the Putorana Plateau in the Krasnoyarsk territory, the University’s press service said on Wednesday. The University’s expedition is working in Evenkiya to place seven satellite collars,” the University said.…

The movie will be released in Russia on May 4 The makers of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 movie based on the Marvel comics are expected to visit Moscow on April 27, the Russian distributors told TASS. “Director and screenwriter James Gunn as well as actors Pom Klementieff and Michael Rooker will visit…

The place to install the bust will be chosen at a meeting of the Commission on Toponymy on April 27 The Russky Dukh (or Russian Spirit) public organization and the administration of the city of Surgut, Western Siberia, have struck an agreement on installing a bust of Joseph Stalin, the organization’s chairman Denis Khanzhin told…

If Russia’s recent political demonstrations are any indication, the new spirit in Russia’s youth could breed a new era of nonconformity, where youth people’s quiet refusal to follow old rules transforms into vocal insubordination.

The San Francisco rental site Airbnb came to Russia in 2012. It promised to usher in the era of the sharing economy—replacing Soviet-era kommunalkas with hipster apartments. Less than 5 years later, it’s gone.

Лад is a nice little word. No one seems to know its origins, but it contains notions of order, harmony, and accord – all those good emotions and behaviors that make life not only livable, but peaceful.

The rift between the elites and the masses in Russia is as real today as it was six or 26 years ago. Neither the annexation of Crimea, nor symbolic gestures aimed at exciting nationalistic pride have been able to bridge it.

After the Culture Ministry bumped the release of The Fast and The Furious 8 in favor of a state-sponsored movie on the Soviet space program, some of Russia’s largest movie theater chains are fighting back.

Ron Powers, a mechanical engineer at Apple, turned a used van into a mobile laundromat and made it available for free to the homeless of Santa Cruz, California. He said he spent many years focused on studying…

Democrats and Republicans alike hammered the FBI on Wednesday for its use of facial recognition software to identify potential suspects, saying the technology fosters racial bias, leads to arrests of innocent… Photo Credit: National Science Foundation

Puerto Rico came into Monday’s World Baseball Classic semifinal game against The Netherlands with an undefeated record, and they’ll carry that unblemished mark into Wednesday’s title contest as they notched… Photo Credit: Denis Poroy/Getty Images

Russian banks are refusing to accept passports issued by Ukraine’s breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, despite orders from Russian President Vladimir Putin that officials to start recognizing the documents.

Only a select few of Russia’s oligarchs make it to the top of the world’s rich lists. We looked at the Russian businessmen ranked among the world’s elite in the top 100 of Bloomberg’s prestigious Billionaires Index.

The gigs featuring the original Dire Straits band mates Chris White and Chris Whitten will roll out hits by the legendary British act in Moscow on March 3 and in Ufa on Mar The Dire Straits Experience is a project by the legendary British rock band’s saxophone player Chris White and guitarist/vocalist Terence Reis. The…

The latest survey showed that 75% of Crimean Tatars are pleased with their life since the peninsula became a part of Russia Three quarters of Crimean Tatars are pleased with their life after Crimea became a part of Russia, according to a survey conducted by Russia’s Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs. “The latest survey showed…

The Kremlin envoy hopes that the State Duma will adopt an animal cruelty law, strengthening liability for such activities The Russian President’s special envoy for transport and the environment, Sergey Ivanov, has called for a ban on keeping wild animals as house pets and stricter safety guidelines for so-called petting zoos. In an interview with…

The felines will be taken to an animal shelter A pair of lion cubs have been found in an industrial district in southern Moscow, the capital’s environmental protection department said on Tuesday. “The cubs are between five and six months old. Police officers are working at the site of the discovery,” the department said. The…